The 10 person lab raised $30M from 5Y Capital and IDG at a $200M post money valuation and plans to release its full model in 2027. Tian, a former ByteDance intern and winner of a 2024 NeurIPS best paper award, previously paid 500,000 yuan in damages and returned his ByteDance salary after admitting he shut down another intern's program to free up computing resources.
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Keyu Tian AI Lab Uses 200k Symbol Language for 2027 World Model
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An unnamed AI startup led by Keyu Tian is training a foundation model on 100 million hours of video to help robots and autonomous vehicles understand the laws of physics. The research avoids using human language to describe the world, instead utilizing a machine created lexicon of 200,000 symbols to compress and predict visual data, which Tian claims increases video generation efficiency by at least 10 times.
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